Family Scandal (Peccato Originale) (1980)

Italian centerfold starlets Martine Brochard and Elisabetta Virgili bare themselves for this sensuous thriller, with Brochard playing a grieving widow and mother to the teenage Virgili. As their relationship self-destructs, both find solace in the arms of new men--but Virgili's sexual hungers turn her into a jealous seductress who aims to bed her mother's new friend. Philippe Leroy, Luciano Crovato co-star. 75 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Italian Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English. In Italian with English subtitles.

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